LAPD Chief William Bratton, who has consistently opposed new legislation that would further restrict and penalize aggressive paparazzi photographers, spoke with KNBC reporter Robert Kovacik about a hearing on the issue, which he deemed “a total waste of time.” Bratton told Kovacik, “If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody, thank god; and, evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue. If the ones that attract the paparazzi behave in the first place, like we expect of anybody, that solves about 90 percent of the problem. The rest of it we can deal with. So as far as all this grandstanding and foolishness, waste of city time on this issue — and the fact that I felt aggravated enough about it to interrupt my workout to come over and set the record straight, LAPD has no intention of participating in this farce.”
Video at knbc.com has since been removed.